Turkey and Greece.
THE BLOCKADE PROCLAIMED, MOBILISATION OF TROOPS. (Per Press Association.) Athens, March 22.
In accordance with the decision of the Powers a blockade of Crete was proclaimed yesterday. Colonel Vassos declared that he will resist the blockade aud he has arranged for an immediate conference with the Cretan insurgents with view to concerted measures of resistance.
Two thousand Christians in Syria and Palestine are preparing to fight. The Greek Governnienthasinformed fchp Turkish commandant at JPrevesa. (on the Gulf of Arta) that the erection of fovts there is contrary to the terms of the Berlin Treaty. Servia has moblilised her reserves near the frontier. Loxdox, March 22. .
The Athens correspondent of the Daily News wires that eighty thousand Greek troops are massed on the Turkish frontier, and seventeen thou sand on the Gulf of Arta and other bodies of troops at Larissa and TrikalaThe Athens correspondent of The Times says'the Greek Government would gladly defer to Euiope's will if the Turkish troops would withdraw.
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Thames Advertiser, Volume XXIX, Issue 8693, 24 March 1897, Page 2
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